let's broaden the world's energy mix. let's go. >>> all right. don't mind us. 25 minutes after the hour. minding your business this morning, u.s. stock futures are up. this is welcome news after the s&p 500 closed lower for the fifth straight day yesterday. that's right, it was all zpoom gloom, because of concerns about europe, particularly greece and spain as protesters hit the streets in athens and madrid, still going on there. not getting any better. christine romans is here to talk a little bit more about that. hey, good morning. >> good morning. those pictures were really frightening, weren't they? and a lot of people on wall street were watching those, because we're very concerned about what's happening in europe. and also here, concerned about the fiscal cliff. because american ceos are warning that it hasn't happened yet and it will hurt jobs. ceos of fortune 500 companies say they will hire fewer people and investless in the next six months because of the uncertainty surrounding the fiscal cliff. i want to pause here, the fiscal cliff, a